I've actually just read the declaration statements of the British North America Act, which is the british act to which you are referring, and "Dominion of Canada" is not stated.

Wording:

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Originally Posted by BNA

3. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable
Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation that, on and after a Day therein appointed,
not being more than Six Months after the passing of this Act, the Provinces of Canada, Nova
Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form and be One Dominion under the Name of Canada;

It depends on your method of determining what a country's "legal" name is. The country's constitution would be the most obvious place to look, but the phrase "Dominion of Canada" does not appear anywhere in the original 1867 British North America Act (now known as the Constitution Act). The word "Dominion" only appears four times in the entire document, twice in the preamble, and twice in Article II, which declares, in part:

"the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form and be One Dominion under the Name of Canada [...] those Three Provinces shall form and be One Dominion under that Name accordingly."

I didn't necessarily mean the words "Dominion of Canada", in that order were in any of the Acts, but the title of "Dominion" certainly was, and since it says "under the name of Canada", it would follow that "Dominion of Canada" is legal.

I didn't necessarily mean the words "Dominion of Canada", in that order were in any of the Acts, but the title of "Dominion" certainly was, and since it says "under the name of Canada", it would follow that "Dominion of Canada" is legal.

Or Canada: The Dominion.

No. It would follow that you can call it whatever you want, but if you're zee and not zed, then we're Canada and not the dominion.